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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine article. At that time I sent it to Esquire and Playboy, but anyway, I kept writing, and all of sudden I had enough and thought, well maybe it is a book.

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China.

I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.

My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.

Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.

I liked Nixon fine, but Nixon was not a partier.

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.